UK events firm that hosts arms fairs and comic shows sold to rival for £2bn FTSE 100 firm Informa to buy Clarion from private equity group Blackstone The Guardian - UK · Oct 6
Informa to buy rival events firm Clarion for £2.2bn amid strategy overhaul The FTSE 100 firm said the deal to buy Clarion from private equity giant Blackstone will add more than 100 event brands to its portfolio. Evening Standard · Oct 6
News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing? When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. The Conversation · Feb 5
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Widespread mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention The Guardian - UK · Jul 13, 2025
Richard Osman urges writers to ‘have a good go’ at Meta over breaches of copyright The author was responding to news that the company used a notorious publicly available database of more than 7.5m books to train artificial intelligence The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2025
An academic publisher has struck an AI data deal with Microsoft – without their authors’ knowledge In May, a multibillion-dollar UK-based multinational called Informa announced in a trading update that it had signed a deal with Microsoft involving “access to advanced learning content and data, and a partnership to explore AI expert applications”. Informa is the parent company of Taylor Francis, which publishes a wide range… The Conversation · Jul 23, 2024